Blog Consultant Explains why she tells clients to avoid Movable Type Suw Charman doesn’t much like movable type and spends a post countering a recent marketing email she got from Six Apart the vendors behind MT (tags: mov movabletype sixapart… Continue Reading
Google takes more ad revenue in UK than anyone but ITV Google now makes more in advertising revenue in the UK than everyone besides ITV, which it could catch soon… (link thanks to Virtual Economics) (tags: google googleads advertising search… Continue Reading
Kristine Lowe does a good round up of thoughts on proposed French “anti citizen journalism” law (tags: freespeech citizenjournalism usergeneratedcontent france law internetlaw journalism) Why is RSS adoption so abysmal amongst UK newspapers online? Uses the bloglines subscription numbers for… Continue Reading
The recent controversy over premium rate phone in votes to television programmes in the UK not being tallied properly underlines the point that audiences will eventually question, then turn against, participation for participation’s sake. The programmes in question, where audience… Continue Reading
Guardian to plow £15 million into their websites over next 18 months Expect lots of web 2.0 goodness and forays into video (tags: web2.0 newspaperwebsites newspaperbusiness guardian innovation news2.0) Frontiers of Innovation in Community Engagement News Organizations Forge New Relationships… Continue Reading
I don’t watch much television – so little of it is compelling to me and, even if it was, I don’t have much time to spend watching it anyway. It’s not a matter of my lacking access to good video… Continue Reading
Bush Administration wants anyone offering community or publishing platform to keep records “The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the… Continue Reading
Interview with Rob Curley: vice president of product dev for Washingtonpost/Newsweek Interactive Includes a good bullet point list of what news orgs need to do to adapt to the online world (tags: journalism journalisttraining news2.0 washingtonpost newspaperbusiness newspaperwebsites) A charity… Continue Reading
The French Constitutional Council has, according to the IDG News Service, “approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who… Continue Reading
WashingtonPost: Police Turn to YouTube to Catch Suspects Patrolman Brian Johnson of the Franklin, Mass., Police Department used YouTube to post a surveillance video showing two men using allegedly stolen credit cards at a Home Depot… (tags: washingtonpost youtube crime… Continue Reading